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POULTHY NEST.

(Application led June 21, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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JOSEPH N. GAUDREAU, OF MAGOG, CANADA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 688,944, dated December 17, 1901.

Application tiled .Tune 21,1901. Serial No. 65,402. (No model.) t

To LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH N. GAUDREAU, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Magog, county of Stanstead, Province of Quebec, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Poultry-Nests; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains io make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in poultry-nests; and the primary object in view is the provision of an improved construction wherein freshly-laid eggs are automatically and safely re-stored in a separate compartment from the Vnest chamber or chambers, whereby egg-eating hens are prevented from eating the eggs.

A further object is the provision of animproved structure adapted to enable an attendant to reach and remove the eggs without disturbing the occupant of either of a series of nest-chambers, to simplify and cheapen the construction, and to prevent the nest-egg from being lost or removed, while permitting it to have a limited movement in the nest` chamber.

With these ends in view the invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts, which Will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings hereto annexed, forming a part ot' this specification, Figure 1 is a plan View of a poultry-nest embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section thereof on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

The same numerals of reference denote like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

5 designates the frame or casing, which is shown as of generally rectangular construction, although the particular shape is not material. Within this casing are secured the transverse partitions 6 and 7, which are arranged parallel with each other and serve to form an intermediate storage-compartment 8 and to define the limits ot' the nest-chambers 9 10. The upper portion of the storagecompartment 8 is closed by means of a door or cover, which is represented in the drawings as consisting of two sections 11 11a, haviilling ot' cushion material 20.

ing individual hinge connection 12 with the partitions 6 7, said parts of the cover arranged to meet one with the other when they are closed to the position shown by Fig. 2, and the cover member 11 having a suitable operating-knob 13.

Each nest=chamber is formed with a bottom 14, in which is formed aicavity 15, and the bottom 16 of this cavity is inclined from the end wall of the casing 5 in a downward direction toward an opening 17, the latter being formed or provided in each of the partitions 6 or 7. (See Fig. 2.)

The storage-compartment S lies between.

the two nest-chambers 9 10, and it contains a sldable drawer 2S, which extends across the structure and is arranged to be withdrawn and replaced from the outside of the device. The drawer may be manipulated by an eX- ternal knob 29, and the eggs in the drawer can thus be easily reached and removed without disturbing the hen or hens on the nest. This drawer is furnished with a false bottom 18, which may be made of any suitable material and which is arranged, as shown by Fig. 3, so as to produce a space 19, adapted to contain This soft or cushioned false bottom of the drawer is arranged below the inclined bottoms 16 of the nest-chambers, so that the freshly-laid eggs may roll along said bottoms from the nestchambers into the drawer in the storage-compartment 8, the cushioned false bottom in said drawer having a tendency to minimize breakage of the eggs. This storagecompartment is provided with the linings 21 on its side Walls, and the eggs may thus be safely received and stored in the compartment 8,

the latter adapted to receive the eggs from a series of nest-chambers.

Vithin the compartment 8 and attached to the partitions G 7 of the poultry-nest are the plates 22 23, one of which is shown by Fig. 3 as having a pivotal connection at 24 to one of the partitions. To each of these plates is egg-eating hen from having access to the eggs which may be contained in the intermediate compartment S. This door is held normally in its closed position by its own Weight or gravity; but the door is free to have a universal movement with respect to the partition, because the door itself is connected by a pivot lying in one direction to a plate, which has a movable connection with the partition by a pivot lying in a different direction, whereby the door is adapted to easily and freely open when f pressure is exerted thereon by an egg rolling down the bottom 16 of the nest-chamber. A freshly-laid egg is thus adapted to automatically open the door in order to permit the egg to pass from a nest-chamber into the storage-compartment, and communication' between the two chambers is automatical-ly cut off by the closing of the door; If desired, the cover ll 1la maybe opened to remove the eggs from the compartment 8 throughthe top` thereof.

rEach-chamber 9 or 10 has a nest-egg 30. Asshown `by the drawings, the egg is attached to afcord-Bl, which is fastened to the bottom of the nest at 32, whereby the egg is prevented from being easily removed, .andi at thel same time it is adapted to have a limited movement in the nest-chamber.

Changes within the scope ofthe appended claimsmay be made in the form and proportion: of someof the parts, while their essential features are retained and the spirit of the invention isembodied. Hence I'd'o not'desire to be limited to the precise form of all the yparts as shown, reserving the right to make changestherein within the scope of the invention.

Having thus vdescribed my invention,- what I claim as new is- 1l. Apoultry-nest comprising a casing having transverse partitions and forming an intermediate storage-compartment between separatenest-chambers, the latter having inclined bottoms terminating at door-openings formed in said partitions, and automatically-closable doors arranged to cut oiI" communication between said storage-compartment and the nestchambers, said doors being open ed automatically by eggs rolling against them, substantially as described.

2. A poultry-nest comprising a casing hav- "ing the transverse partitions arranged to form an intermediate storage-compartment and to divide the casing into isolated nest-chambers,

suitable door-openings in said partitions, a cover to the storage-compartment, the iniclined bottoms in the nest-chambers, and the khinged doors arranged within the storage- 'compartment and mounted on the partitions to normally close the dooropenings therein, said doors adapted to be opened by eggs rolling against them and being closable automat- 'ically and cutting off communication between the storage-compartment and the nest-cham- `bers, substantially as described.

3. A poultry-nest'comprising a casing having the transverse partitions forming an inter mediate storage compartment between lisollated'lnest-ch'ambers, the inclined bottoms in said nest-chambers, the door-openings inthe partitions, a'drawer having a cushioned false 4. A nest provided with nest-chambers and drawer within said storage chamber, and means for normally cutting off commuication Ibetween the chambers, substantially as described.

Inwitness whereof I have hereunto set my hand-in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH N. GAUDREAU.

Witnesses:

Ji U; LANGLOIS, JOHN MCGEE.

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